Category: Book of Mormon
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Book of Mormon Plates Source Information
[The following is reproduced from the Introduction to the 1981 edition of the Book of Mormon]: A BRIEF EXPLANATION ABOUT THE BOOK OF MORMON The Book of Mormon is a sacred record of peoples in ancient America, and was engraved upon sheets of metal. Four kinds of metal record plates are spoken of in the…
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Preface to the Book of Mormon, 1830, first edition
PREFACE. TO THE READER— As many false reports have been circulated respecting the following work, and also many unlawful measures taken by the evil designing persons to destroy me, and also the work, I would inform you that I translated, by the gift and power of God, and caused to be written, one hundred and…
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The Stolen Manuscript: The Lost 116 Pages of the Book of Mormon (The Golden Bible, excerpt)
[An excerpt from the book, The Golden Bible by Rev. M. T. Lamb, 1887, pp. 118-126] K. The Stolen Manuscript. Strangely enough we find inserted in the middle of the Book of Mormon, pages 141-143 [Book of Mormon, pp. 143-145 in the 1981 edition] a little book entitled the “Book of Mormon,” or “Words of Mormon.” It is…
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Mormon Claims Answered: Chapter 5
Marvin W. Cowan More LDS Scripture & Revelation “We believe all that God has revealed, all that He does now reveal, and we believe that He will yet reveal many great and important things pertaining to the Kingdom of God.” 9th Article of Faith by Joseph Smith Mormon Apostle Bruce McConkie wrote, By the standard…
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Mormon Claims Answered: Chapter 4
Marvin W. Cowan The Book of Mormon We also believe the Book of Mormon to be the Word of God.8th Article of Faith (Pearl of Great Price), by Joseph Smith Mormonism says the Book of Mormon is a sacred history of the ancestors of the Native Americans just like the Bible is for the Jews.…
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Mormon Claims Answered
By Marvin W. Cowan Utah Lighthouse Ministry would like to thank Marvin Cowan for graciously allowing us to post his book, Mormon Claims Answered, on our website. Note: Mormon Claims Answered is also available in Spanish and Russian translations. TABLE OF CONTENTS EXPLANATION OF ABBREVIATED BOOK TITLES INTRODUCTION CHAPTER 1 – ORIGIN AND HISTORY OF…
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Mormon Claims Answered: Introduction
By Marvin W. Cowan The title of this book, Mormon Claims Answered, sums up its message and its purpose. Since its inception, Mormonism has claimed that all other churches are universally apostate (heretical) and that the LDS church alone is the “only true and living church upon the face of the whole earth” (Doctrine &…
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Interview with Martin Harris in Tiffany’s Monthly
Martin Harris, one of the three witnesses of the Book of Mormon, tells of his early experiences with Joseph Smith, the gold plates, the Urim and Thummim, Smith’s money-digging, and his Seer stone. “I am forbidden to say anything [about] how the Lord showed them [the gold plates] to me, except that by the power…
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Joseph Smith’s Use of the Apocrypha
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner In 1968, we did a study of the relationship between the Book of Mormon and the Apocrypha. Our research led us to believe that Joseph Smith borrowed material from the Apocrypha in creating his Book of Mormon. Recently, we took a closer look at the Apocrypha and discovered additional evidence…
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The Book of Mormon: Inspired Scripture or a Work of Fiction?
By Jerald and Sandra Tanner The battle began in the year 1830 when the Mormon prophet Joseph Smith published the Book of Mormon. Smith proclaimed that an angel had revealed that the ancient inhabitants of the New World had written a religious history on gold plates and that God had given him the power to…